We flew into Manchester, England
We started our first day by attending the temple in Preston, England. It is a beautiful setting with the England MTC on the same grounds along with a Stake Center.
This was the beginning of our visits to castles. This particular one, Castle Howard is still partially occupied by the Howard family. What a life.
Monday, we left for Scotland but stopping first at Beatrix Potter's house before leaving the country. (she wrote a series of children's books such as Peter Rabbit)
We spent the night at Loch Lommond at the Inn at Inverbeg - charming but cold.
Wednesday we drove in pouring rain to Glamis Castle - outside of Dundee, Scotland. This is where Queen Mum (Margaret) grew up. It was fascinating.
While in the castle, the rain passed and the sun came out. It was beautiful.
We drove a short distance to Dunnottar Castle. This place was AMAZING
We drove toward St Andrews to find a place to stay. We found a nice B&B in Arbroath. So nice and loved the owners.
Thursday morning we left for St. Andrews. The collage is there that Prince William and Kate met while attending collage. It was freshman week so all the students were coming back to campus. It was a small town but full of people and excitement in the air.
After walking the town etc. we drove on to Edinburgh and spent the next two nights there. AND what did we see in Edinburgh? Another castle and walked Royal Mile that is full of shops and historic buildings.
We really did have our friends with us the whole time. Just didn't include any pictures of them. Although we were mainly interested in visiting all the castles we did, it was interesting and intriguing. We loved them all. The countryside and towns were beautiful and lodging was good. We parted from our friends Friday afternoon and Bill and I walked the streets of Edinburgh and enjoyed the atmosphere.
6 comments:
Love it! It is cool to see you in some of the places we visited not so long ago. I am so glad you went to Dunnottar. It was the highlight of our trip! Your pics make me want to go back. :)
Those castles are amazing. You have to wonder what it would be like to grow up in a castle like that.
It does look like a trip worth taking. Very beautiful!!
Loved it Mom!! Makes me want to make a trip back to Europe ASAP. :) And I can't believe you have only blogged twice this year!
What a great trip! I am glad you had a lot of fun and so jealous of all the beautiful stuff you saw!
spectacular pictures!!! These castles are amazing and almost too beautiful to be real! Glad you had such a fun time.
You got a lot of great pictures, Janet! I love seeing all the architecture and visiting other countries. I have yet to go to Scotland and Ireland, but I loved visiting a few castles in France, as well as cathedrals throughout France and Italy. I find them all so interesting but I don't think I would have liked living in any of the old stone castles...
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